From: Jon Winters <winters@obscurasite.com>
Eric Armstrong wrote:
>
> From: Eric Armstrong <eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com>
>
> Jon Winters wrote:
>
> > A quick check at freshmeat.net turned up several stand-alone link
> > checkers.
> >
> > http://www.freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=link+checker
> >
> > I haven't had a chance to test them yet but I might do so this
> > weekend.
> > If so I'll report back any findings to the group.
>
> I'm looking forward to the results.
From the hits on freshmeat I found a page with more link checkers:
http://www.elsop.com/wrc/comp_ls.htm#unix_share
I've downloaded and installed the Linbot. Its a spider that you can use
to check the links on any site.
http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/linbot/
> Some characteristics
> to look for:
> * Automatable
> --Ability to start up a script and let it crank
Can be run as a cron job. :-)
> * Links to Internal Addresses
> --Most, in checking href="x#foo" consider it a "success"
> if file x exists. They never verify that the "foo" anchor
> exists.
Hmmm..... I'll need to try this but I see how it would be important at
bootstrap.org... lots of internal links.
> * Exception Reporting
> --Surprisingly, some apps feel compelled you about every link that
> succeeds, as well as those that fails. Makes it hard to
> impossible
> to find the real problems.
Linbot is configurable. I'm doing some testing with it now to see what
the reports look like.
-- Jon Winters http://www.obscurasite.com/jon/"Everybody Loves The GIMP!" http://www.gimp.org/
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